The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

At some point before our ancestors left Africa, they interbred with this unknown species, contributing to a long and complicated series of affairs between separate hominin lineages. The rest of this ...

For tens of thousands of years, two species — Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans — shared vast landscapes. Occasionally, they crossed paths, and when they did, they left traces of their ...

It usually takes millions of years for new species to evolve, but not for fish in one African lake.

In 1948, amateur archaeologists unearthed the remains, which should have shifted researchers' views of Neanderthals. But poor ...

The cost of a cat is not merely its adorable appearance but rather a factor of rarity, complexity of breeding, prestige, and ...

Barbecue, the four-month-old Phu Quoc ridgeback named for his love of barbecued fish, takes a break from welcoming guests at ...

A white shark killed by an orca, washed ashore at Gansbaai. (Hennie Otto/Marine Dynamics/Dyer Island Conservation Trust) Off the coast of South Africa, near the fishing town of Gansbaai, two orcas ...

While lions, tigers and their relatives can sometimes interbreed, these rare hybrids reveal as much about the limits of nature as they do about its possibilities.

With the planned creation of new galleries for its Arts of Africa collection, the Brooklyn Museum hopes visitors will see their cultures “represented with dignity.” By Aruna D’Souza The Brooklyn ...